In order to make American culture appear freer and more open than the Soviet culture, in 1950 the CIA established the Congress for Cultural Freedom.
The CCF organised concerts throughout the world featuring the mostly atonal music of the so-called Second Viennese School including composers like Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, in other words, the composers whose records never sold much in the free market place compared with the likes of Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart.
By the 1970s, there was an idea in the West, and particularly in America, that if one liked Beethoven one was 'old fashioned', if one liked Tchaikovsky one was 'simplistic', and if - heaven forbid - one liked Khachaturian, one was 'ill informed'.
Such an attitude certainly didn't advance classical music in America.
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Where Hendrix first heard "All Along the Watchtower" is a matter of some debate. His publicist at the time, Michael Goldstein, says he played it for him at a Greenwich Village party before Dylan's album John Wesley Harding was even released. Hendrix's girlfriend Kathy Etchingam says he first heard it like any other Dylan fan would have: he bought a copy of the record. There are other stories as well. Dave Mason of Traffic has described a party...
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Here is the complete 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees List. Special shout out to John Scofield's cove of Hank William's: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
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For many guitarists, a 12 string guitar can be a bit of a luxury. While some players are closely associated with 12 strings, most players use them more sparingly. If that describes you, here's a possible 12 string alternative - the DigiTech Mosaic Polyphonic 12 String effect pedal.
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Eric Gales grew up in a musical family with four brothers, two of them who learned to play the guitar upside down and left handed in the same fashion that Eric does. Through the years, it would not be unusual to look out in the audience and see artists like Carlos Santana, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, B. B. King, and Eric Clapton, looking on with interest as Eric took his God-given talent and worked crowd after crowd into a frenzy. Learn Eric Gales Guitar Secrets
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